| | Announcing the 2021-2022 CISSR Dissertation Fellows | | | |
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| | CISSR is pleased to announce our Dissertation Fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. Representing five departments and disciplines, our nine fellows will complete their dissertation projects focusing on international or transnational social science research. CISSR proudly supports these excellent graduate student projects and showcases its commitment to broad representation of departments by supporting the very best in global and international projects within the Social Sciences Division. The Dissertation Fellows’ projects encompass five continents. From studying corporate philanthropy in China to the spiritual practices of young queer people in Zimbabwe to the effect of mass media on Mexico’s “war on drug trafficking", our newest cohort showcases the value of interdisciplinary and international research. CISSR aims to continue developing international social science research at the University of Chicago by supporting and growing an interdisciplinary community of researchers within the university and beyond. | | | |
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| | | April 20Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Katz Center for Mexican Studies The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties 1:00pm, Live Stream
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| | The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict The Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Annual Lecture 7:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 21Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies China, Russia, and the Global Politics of COVID-19 Vaccines 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 22Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Center for East European and Russian-Eurasian Studies, the Department of Germanic Studies Women Writing in Yiddish: Gender Politics, Recovery, & Translation (Day 1) 1:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and the Departments of Anthropology and Comparative Human Development Imagining an Ethnography of Pregnant Class-Privileged People of Color: Race, Class, Gender, and Prenatal Care 3:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Seminary Co-op Bookstore and the Center for East Asian Studies East Asia by the Book! The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 23Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, and the UChicago Press The Climate of History in the Planetary Age 10:00am, Live Stream
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| | Health Humanities Symposium at the Smart Museum of Art Global Perspectives: Healing in an Interconnected World 2:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Center for East European and Russian-Eurasian Studies, the Department of Germanic Studies
Women Writing in Yiddish: Gender Politics, Recovery, & Translation (Day 2) 1:00pm, Live Stream
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| | | April 22Workshop on International Politics American Political Violence Today 3:30pm, Live Stream
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| | Latin American History Workshop 5:00pm, Live Stream
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| | Please note: Workshops are scholarly communities that pre-circulate papers. They meet regularly throughout the year and are generally not open to the public. | |
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| | | | | | AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD | | | |
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| | April 13Chicago Council on Global Affairs The Emerging Autocracies of Europe 12:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | April 14Indiana University Lugar School of Global and International Studies One Country, Two Societies: The Rural-Urban Divide in China and India 8:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | UW Madison African Studies Program Development, (Dual) Citizenship and its Discontents in Africa 12:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 15Brown University Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Center for Middle East Studies, and Association for Middle East Women’s Studies Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | | Indiana University Bloomington Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq 4:00pm, Live Stream
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| | April 16University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies, International Institute, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Asian Languages and Cultures Stemming the Nationalist Tide: Imperial Control and the Protection of Traditional Islam in British Malaya 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Center for South Asian Studies, International Institute, Global Islamic Studies Center, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of History Who was a Muslim? Religious Ideas and Muslim Identities in Mughal North India 3:30pm, Live Stream
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| | April 20The University of Queensland Australia and the University of British Columbia Clean Energy Innovations in Australia and Canada 6:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Why do “naming and shaming” campaigns backfire in international relations?
Scholars and activists have often argued that when a government violates the human rights of its citizens, the international community can respond with moral pressure to improve human rights conditions globally. Yet the research of CISSR Book Workshop Fellow Rochelle Terman challenges the effectiveness of such measures: in a new essay for Public Seminar, she argues that international shaming can often backfire, since it is conditioned by the pre-existing geopolitical relationship between source and target. The result is a politicization paradox in which actions meant to punish violations can actually perpetuate them. You can read the full essay here.
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| | Global inequality in mothers’ experience of child death is enormous, writes Jenny Trinitapoli
CISSR Director Jenny Trinitapoli, Emily Smith-Greenaway, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, and Emilio Zagheni recently published the article “Global burden of maternal bereavement: indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss” in BMJ Global Health. In the article, the authors provide the first population-level estimate of the prevalence of bereaved mothers in 170 countries. Using three indicators—the maternal cumulative prevalence of infant mortality, under-five mortality, and offspring mortality—the authors reveal large global disparities in mother’s experience of child loss and identifies a need for further research on the health risks associated with parental bereavement. The article is available open-access here.
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| | Paul Poast examines imperial policing in Afghanistan
In a new essay for the Modern War Institute at West Point, CISSR Faculty Board Member Paul Poast contends that U.S. policy in Afghanistan has normalized the role of the U.S. military as an imperial policy force. If the U.S. hopes to avoid the fatal mistakes of empires past, it cannot—consciously or otherwise—continue to emulate their policy of imperial policing.
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| | Monika Nalepa shares research on democratic backsliding in Stanford talk | |
| | In a recent talk hosted by Stanford University’s The Europe Center, 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Monika Nalepa shared her research on democratic backsliding. In the talk, Professor Nalepa presents a model in which a government engages in a reform that may allow for subsequent actions that are inconsistent with the rule of law. Citizens must then decide whether to replace the incumbent following the reform. The model suggests that polarization is an important factor in democratic backsliding and that citizens may support incumbent governments even if they are fundamentally opposed to authoritarianism.
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